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Wristlet camera strap tutorial

I think my lowly little point and shoot camera feels left out sometimes. What, with all the cool camera strap tutorials out there like this one or this one, heck, even this one that I posted, it can't help but feel inferior.

Well, here's a way to keep up with the cool bloggers and their dressed up SLR strap covers.

You'll need:

3" x 12" piece of fabric
5" piece of thin elastic cording

Start by ironing your fabric in half lengthwise, wrong sides together. This will make a crease down the center of the strip.

Open the fabric and iron each side in, wrong sides together, to the crease mark.

Fold in half on crease and iron once more. The strip should be 3/4" wide.

Top stitch 1/8" along each edge.

Fold in raw edges on ends.

And sew folded loop of elastic into the folded in ends. Swear profusely under your breath during this step, because the elastic will shift and your machine will refuse to sew through all those layers.

Comments

Oh my goodness! I just discovered your blog and I'm in love with your projects! I have a love for sewing, but it took at back burner to home improvement projects recently. You are inspiring me to get sewing again! I'd love it if you'd come link up to my Home and Family Friday linky parties. I have them every Friday. I'm a fairly new blogger, but was recently featured by the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. That has brought lots of new visitors to my blog. Please stop by. I'm your newest follower.

I just found your blog through Sew Mama Sew...I think.... I've clicked around to so many new sewing/craft blogs the past two days that I honestly can't remember!!!Anyway..I am loving your blog!! I'm very excited that you have this little camera strap. Do you think I could use a hair tie in place of the elastic cording???I saw that you have two little boys. I have a 17 month old son....he is infatuated with my sewing machine : ) This is my next project http://obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com/2010/02/tent-week-day-three-army-bunker-tent.html I thought I'd pass it along to you. I bet your littles would have a blast in it!